Biography of James A. Panting, 1902, Baker Co. Oregon: Surnames: Panting, Addis.

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An Illustrated History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties, pub. 1902
by Western Historical Pub. Co. of Chicago. page 254

JAMES A. PANTING

Mr. Panting is a native of Gloucester, England, born April 1, 1861. His
ancestry is one of which he may justly be proud, the Panting family being an
old and distinguished one, and the home from which he came being likewise
notable, hoary with age, but without the decrepitude usually attendant
thereon. His parents were Alfred A. and Anne (Addis) Panting, natives,
respectively of Wales and of England.

Our subject attended the common schools of his native land, showing great
aptitude in his studies and early graduating from one of the higher schools.
In 1877 he crossed the ocean to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he graduated in
Swensberg College, receiving a diploma as an expert accountant and
mathematician,and attracted much notice, he being the youngest graduate the
institution ever produced. His diploma was endorsed by the president of the
G.R. & I.R.R. Co., also by the lieutenant governor of the state and by all the
bank presidents of Grand Rapids.

Upon retiring from school he entered the service of his wealthy uncle, William
Addis, for a while, then spent two years in learning the lumber business from
the woods to the market. In 1881 he became manager for the firm of Copely,
Marthinson & White, also of the Amoskeag mills near Eastman, Georgia. In time
he followed the lumbering industry into Cuba and then to Central America,
where he became interested in one of the rebellions. He was very successful in
bhis business and in fact in everything he undertook. From Central America he
came north to Mexico, thence tho Seattle, Washington, where, during the boom,
he became one of the largest real estate and mine owners in the city. He was
at that time manager for the Huron Lumber Company.

Going to Cincinnati in 1893 he became a lumber broker there, and to that
business he continued to devote himself with seal and assiduity until 1896,
when he came to Baker county, locating upon Gold Hill, five miles east of
Express. He is extensively engaged in farming, stockraising and mining, and
spends large sums of money in devleoping properties and in the employment of
labor. He is also procuring water rights and farming lands for the companies
he represents, and in numerous other ways is contributing a lion's share
toward the development of his community and the county. He is and will
continue to be a great benefactor of the entire section, and it is to be hoped
that the example he sets of progressiveness and thrift will inspire others to
greater activity and nerve them to nobler efforts. Mr. Panting's family
consists of himself and wife and one child.